My fins were in my left hand and my mask was on my face. The Red Sea was so warm I could barely feel it against my skin. Straight ahead across the turquoise waves the low hills of Saudi Arabia shimmered in the heat haze. I picked up my feet and floated, weightless. There was… Continue reading This is Why I Learned to Scuba Dive
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Dusty Around the Eyes
Names change colors when you are dusty around the eyes. Watch a gerenuk at sunset while listening to a Walkman. These two odd sentences are mnemonics I constructed to remind myself of chains of thought that occurred to me while learning to do anthropological fieldwork in East Africa. Searching the forests of the Semliki Valley… Continue reading Dusty Around the Eyes
Warranty Issue
Marques had just finished eating when Devon walked into the lunch room and asked him, “You remember replacing those bad valves last hitch?” Marques looked up from his phone. “Yeah I remember. I remember you riding me and Carlos to get it done, too.” Devon tried a smile that ended up a grimace. “Since it’s… Continue reading Warranty Issue
Not Quite Canadian
I couldn’t figure it out. Was there something on my face? Was my fly open? I hadn’t made it halfway across campus from the bus stop and three friends had already stopped me to ask how I was doing. I was fine, as far as I knew. But I was starting to wonder. It was… Continue reading Not Quite Canadian
Ideas, Waves, and Mud
if you start at all you start with something more or less like an idea or maybe something more like a hope and an idea riding a wave or perhaps its better to say a hope and an idea all wrapped up together so they make their own wave and at first all you do… Continue reading Ideas, Waves, and Mud